From Guest Blogger Cameron Atwood: Are Dirty Fighters Throwing Sand in Our Eyes?
There now rages a great contest among our species over the nature of our present and future energy infrastructure.
On the one side, we have people and entities aligned with the status quo – these include the vested moneyed interests that have long extracted massive revenue from our existing fossil energy arrangement. On the other side, we have people and entities now warning against our current path, and instead urging us to look forward toward the very real potential of an energy economy based on sustainable modern resources.
Jeremy Grantham (pictured above) is the co-founder and chief investment strategist of Grantham Mayo van Otterloo (GMO), a Boston-based asset management firm, with more than US $97 billion in assets under management as of December 2011. (more…)
I happened to tune into U.S.-based broadcast network CBS’s weekly “Sunday Morning” just now and noticed that it featured a look at the future of humankind, a subject in which I take a keen interest. Not too surprisingly, the piece was almost uniformly optimistic: longer, healthier lives, the possibility of space migration, and the future of consumer product development aimed to render us even more comfort and convenience. There was one segment on the build-up of trash, but 
The sensibilities of our consumer lifestyle are so ingrained in us that the few people we encounter who simply don’t care about wealth and accumulating “stuff” appear quite odd to us. I was reminded of this yesterday, when I realized it was the birthday of 
Here’s an article that echoes a point I make often: 
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Bartering Gains Increasing Acceptance
Many U.S. resorts are choosing to go green.
Like many countries, Canada has been busy making the environment a better place.
I don’t claim any inside track on what the hugely moneyed U.S.-based companies and the families that underlie them are doing – whether they’re the descendants of the Rockefellers and their 125-year-old oil companies, or the duPonts, or the new winners of the Internet era with their Facebooks and Amazons and Ebays. But could this really be true? 
This morning, Rebecca McKenzie, one our most talented and hard-working interns, joined me in an hour-long telephone interview with three spokespeople from the Dow Chemical Company on the subject of corporate sustainability. I’ll link to a transcript of the interview as soon as it’s available, but for now, let me just say that I was impressed. 
